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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="11ba45a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Radiation Dosimetry Laboratory - Oklahoma State University</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Radiation Dosimetry Laboratory Oklahoma"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> back to  <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Radiation Dosimetry Laboratory Oklahoma"><U><B>Radiation Dosimetry Laboratory - Oklahoma State University</B></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="11cd2b03.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Future students"><U>Future students</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Research and Publications"><U>Research and Publications</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Research group"><U>Research group</U></A></div> <div> <B>Facilities and equipment</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id35.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="2009 ProCure Internship"><U>2009 ProCure Internship</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Photo album"><U>Photo album</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Data and theses"><U>Data and theses</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="For members"><U>For members</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links"><U>Links</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U>Contact Us</U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> The Radiation Dosimetry Laboratory is located in the Venture I building, at the Oklahoma Research and Technology Park. The laboratory is well-equipped to perform the luminescence and dosimetric characterization. </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="135900a0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="266" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>Equipments available are:</B></div> <bR> <div> Three automated Risø TL/OSL readers capable of performing automated sequences of TL and CW-OSL measurements using various stimulation sources. The reader have the following characteristics:</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">"Cleetus": Risoe TL/OSL-DA-15 with green LED stimulation (~10 mW/cm2) or IR LED stimulation. Light from a halogen lamp can also be used to stimulate the samples using appropriate filters. "Cleetus" has a built-in Sr-90/Y-90 source delivering a dose rate of the order of ~100 mGy/s.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">"Prometheus": Risoe TL/OSL-DA-15 with blue LED stimulation and IR laser stimulation. "Prometheus" has a built-in Sr-90/Y-90 source delivering a dose rate of the order of ~100 mGy/s, in addition to an Am-241 alpha source.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">"Zeus": Risoe TL/OSL-DA-15 with blue LED stimulation (~50 mW/cm2) and IR LED stimulation. "Zeus" has a built-in Sr-90/Y-90  source delivering a dose rate of the order of ~100 mGy/s.</div> <bR> <div> An Ocean Optics USB-2000 spectrometer can be used with the Risoe readers to measure the TL emission spectrum in the range from 230 - 800 nm.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Various POSL systems, including a portable POSL readers (green LEDs).</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">OSL strip reader for determining dose profiles (green LEDs)</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Spectrofluorimeter Jobin-Yvon Fluorolog-3 equipped with a xenon lamp for photoluminescence studies.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Pulsed frequency doubled Nd:YAG lasers (532 nm), SR430 multichannel analyzers and photomultiplier tubes for lifetime measurements.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Radiation sources: 60Co gamma source, a 90Sr/90Y beta source, and a MoxtekTM Bullet X-ray tube (50 kVp).</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Ancillary equipment, such as SR400 photon counters, photomultiplier tubes, high voltage power supplies, pre-amplifiers, pulse generators, an Oriel deuterium UV lamp, Newport power meter 1830-C and Newport 818-UV light detector.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Equipment for sample chemical preparation is also available, including fume hoods and sinks, high-precision scales, hot plates, ovens with microcontrollers, a planetary ball mill, and a pellet hydraulic press.</div> <bR> <div> We have access to the <A HREF="http://www.microscopy.okstate.edu/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.microscopy.okstate.edu/"><U>OSU Microscopy Laborator</U></A><A HREF="http://www.microscopy.okstate.edu/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.microscopy.okstate.edu/"><U>y</U></A>, a state-of-art multiuser facility also at Venture. The OSU Microscopy Laboratory is equipped with JEOL JXM 6400 Scanning Electron Microscope System and a JEOL JEM-2100 Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope, in addition to a confocal microscope and atomic force microscope. The laboratory is a multi-user facility. Service fees provide training and equipment time.</div> <bR> <div>  <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-7530195-2"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}</script>  </div> </td> </tr></table></body>